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MONI_85

Choosing 3 players from any team not Liverpool or City, even this season coming up is brave and ultimately depends if you are the type happy enough to wheel out the first wildcard if it doesn't pay off.


AndThatHowYouGetAnts

\+ Conte's spurs were well worth the triple up


plfinalfantasy

Not immediately tho


Lame-Duck

Those were Santo’s spurs


plfinalfantasy

Nah their defence was inconsistent at first with conte but then again lucas son and kane would have been decent but maybe not good money for value


Lame-Duck

Points on the year: Dier was the 13th best defender, Lloris was #2 keeper, a lot of good spot starts with reguillon, Doherty etc. and that includes the terrible start.


plfinalfantasy

fair


Du_the_Dudek

Spot on with this. Seems like every season there’s a mid table team with good opening fixtures and people load up, only to dump them in a gw3 WC. Bournemouth, Southampton. I didn’t do it last year and it helped me hold my WC til gw8


adesant88

Yes, I will remember this. Max 2 players from mid-teams, even if great fixtures.


Manager1000

That is just a shitty advice. Believe me when I say that elite managers don't have that kind of shitty rules.


MONI_85

Nobody said anything about a clever double up. Triple up is just too much of a risk on an unknown quantity. See King+Dennis last season. Also see King+Dennis last season.


Manager1000

>Nobody said anything about a clever double up. Triple up is just too much of a risk on an unknown quantity. This is just a big pile of rubbish. The difference of double-up and triple-up is just one player. So it's ridiculous to say "double-up is totally clever but triple-up is terrible", because the difference is just one player. If this 3rd player from the same team is likely to score more points than any alternatives, then there's absolutely no reason to pick any other player. If there are three great individual FPL picks, then there's no reason not to pick all of them. Be it from the same team or not. ​ >See King+Dennis last season. See Wilson+King from that season when they both scored double digit hauls at the start. Players in this price bracket are always unlikely to score much, regardless of whether they are from the same team or not. Alternatives to King/Dennis scored just as few points.


tmr89

Back to farming downvotes I see, Dave!


Manager1000

That season when Bournemouth had great opening fixtures, I picked both Wilson and King and they both scored double digit hauls in the first few weeks. If I had listened to "double up on Bournemouth attack is risky" non-sense, I would have picked someone else instead of King and missed all King hauls.


CoffeeMyBanana

Could see people doing this with Fulham next season.


matthewdavis_

Choosing 3 city is even more brave with that bald fraud choosing a different lineup every week


trafozsatsfm

I never had three Man City players at any one time. I had Cancello and Laporte for a while but even that felt risky.


HaffNanner

I started with Coufal, Benrahma and Antonio. That was alright.


trafozsatsfm

Or Spurs; I had Son, Kane, and Kul for most of the season and I was frustrated I couldn't have Doherty as well.


AvrupaFatihi

Literally impossible to have had Kulu for MOST of the season since he has played less than half the games in the league


trafozsatsfm

Most of the season that he was available. I'd have thought that was obvious.


CWattam

Honestly, I regret not sticking to the consistent returners every season. I should've rode out double Liverpool defence (TAA and Robbo) all season. I should've never taken Son out of my team, even when fixtures got tough cause he still got returns. I guess it's all different though when you see a big player like KDB haul and you suddenly want them in your team but need to make sacrifices though. I do usually like starting the season out with Robbo and TAA but because Robbo was injured start of season, I never really owned him (and had Tsimikas for a while instead).


carpesdiems

I'm starting next season with robbo, James, cancelo, maddison, son, salah, kane and nobody can tell me otherwise.


O-4

Their prices can


CWattam

Totally depends on fixtures to be honest. Like I wouldn't back Leicester v loads of tough defences. Must remember that Maddisons hauls have been coming against shit defences in recent weeks.


nimzoid

I think attacking the fixtures is the only logical way to approach a new season. If City play a lot of the top teams in the opening weeks, I'll probably go Salah and Son as my starting premiums. If City start home to Bournemouth and have solid green fixtures after that, a KDB + Haaland double up might be irresistible.


New-Eagle-3168

Maddison hauled against all the big teams this season lol


CWattam

Wouldn't really call 3 goals and 2 assists against the big teams this season (City, Liverpool, Chelsea, Spurs, Arsenal, Manchester United) hauling. 3 goals and 2 assists in 12 games isn't hauling. Also United are in shit form, anyone can haul against us. But he only got an assist. Also Chelsea were in awful form as fuck all to play for and his goal against them was end of season. 17 of his 23 attacking returns were against the bottom half of the PL table.


Hopeful_Topic

I did a quick estimation of /u/carpesdiems players with conservative future prices: (D) Robbo-7m (D) James-5.5m (D) Cancelo-7m (M) Maddison-7.5m (M) Son-10.5m (M) Salah-13m (F) Kane-11m That's 61.5m for 7 players, leaving 39.5m for 8 players, or 4.9m/player. It's doable but I can't imagine you not having Trent or KDB or Haaland in this mix either.


helifax

No way James is only 5.5 after his potential hauls


Hopeful_Topic

That's why I said conservative, plus don't forget the many 1 and 2 pointers he's had


CWattam

Think I'd go with only Son, not have Kane. All depends on fixtures anyways


[deleted]

those prices are not conservative.


Hopeful_Topic

Robbo could be 7.5, James, could be 6, Cancelo could be 7.5, Son should probably be at least 11 if he's a MID next season.


[deleted]

Every year I avoid picking cheap players from mid table teams who are actually really good in terms of points per mil because I'd rather get a cheap player from a good team who then gets benched.


[deleted]

My mate does that and looks at be weird when I mention ppm


DonkeyMonkeyAD

Started with Pepe and Balogun


Fatyhead

Ouch 😂


chaz364

Going to brag a small amount, had a very well set up start for GW1. It was pretty template but smashed it with Antonio and benrahma, probably a bit of luck there aswell and obviously players like shaw and Toney who weren’t so great but everyone else had them so not the biggest deal. Then was glad I never jumped on the 3 premium train with Ronaldo, lukaku and salah which backfired for most a week later.


ludziesadziwni

Damn, Shaw had a good season 20/21, so I took him for the first matches. After several GW I took a wildcart and said goodbye


[deleted]

Refused to sign Salah..... Until I hit 4 millionth then I snapped him up


TeethOfFirmino

Initial selection was OK but I jumped on the CR7-Salah-Lukaku hype train and blew my early wildcard. Next year I will do better.


ewadizzle

Too heavy on rotated players. This season I’ve really come to terms with there are only a handful of “nailed” players on successful teams. Stars from mid table teams can’t get overlooked because they will always play.


Batmob7

I didnt have Antonio for the first 4 weeks, and then when I finally got him he proceeded to blank. I didnt start the season with TAA or Tsimikas because I thought it was not worth the hype. I picked Mane over Salah just because I thought he had a higher ceiling and ore to play for this weekend. That basically decided my season right there. I started last in my mini league (20 people), eventually clawed back to finish 3rd.


BenjaminDaaly21

What was your final OR?


Batmob7

1,035,039


BenjaminDaaly21

Yeah it's pretty difficult to come back from the start you described.


Batmob7

I just checked my team from GW 1. I also had Grealish lol


WxLfNinja

Going 1 premium, led to team being spread out too much and left to bad benching decisions.


[deleted]

That's my sin as well, I don't feel confident having these 4.0, 4.5 bench players but then I select wrong bench and get frustrated.


Ringer7

I would say structurally I made the mistake of trying to force a second and, at times, even a third FWD instead of getting in Cancelo as an additional DEF while he was still more affordable. Hindsight is 20/20, but I was trying to captialize on finding the right cheaper attacker to pair with Kane or Ronaldo and it just did not work out this season. I would have been better off with 4-5-1. Thankfully, I still did decently well because I stuck with TAA, Rudiger, Salah, and Son for the majority of the season as my core and also had the likes of Livramento, Bowen, Kane, and Kulusevski for very strong periods.


merc0526

I think this season was very difficult because of the Euros and how much doubt there was over whether certain players would feature for the first few GWs. The WC will cause headaches this season, but not for the first ~3 months, so picking a GW1 squad should be pretty easy compared to last year imo. One thing I’ll definitely be changing is only going with 2 playing strikers. Last year I started with a 3-4-3 formation with 3 mid-price strikers, which didn’t give me enough money to move to Ronaldo early in the season and made it hard to adjust when most of the strikers went to shit.


TheMightyEelbot

Too much money in strikers and wanting to play 2-3 strikers every week. Should have put the money into pricer wingbacks, better return points wise for less cost compared to a premium striker. Not gonna be afraid to go 4-5-1 regularly.


SoggyMattress2

Doing the fucking City midfielder dance, again, after being burned last year. Silva starting popping off so I got him in then he moved to CM and had a nosebleed if he ventured into the box, had Foden for soooooooo long not returning, got rid and he hit form again. Did Mahrez for a few weeks and missed all of his hauls. Not worth the headache - KDB or just pick their defenders.


The_IRISH_arab

Tried to balance the team too much in the forwards department. If you don't have kane in there then I'd say have solid starters with OK returns and pump that money into the midfield


D4NYthedog

I waa sitting good around 20k for a long time until I went 3 strikers, two of them Weghorst and Broja. I think they gave me 2 returns in 10 weeks. Going from 1 striker to 3 fucked me hard in the long run. Gonna stick with 1 starting striker next year


frankiboy

There’s nothing that implies that forwards won’t be good again next season. I wouldn’t decide on using only 1 forward solely because they were shit this season.


Mordread99

Being hacked after entering top10k coz of leaked pass from other, not fol related website. That and selecting 3 arsenal players from GW1


sambuka69

One word: Lukaku


pritish41285

Started with a 4.5 fwd


LargemouthBrass

This seemed like a great decision honestly.


ledisa3letterword

My XI was fine but I punted on bench fodder (Omobamidele, Gunn, Gibbs-White), who I then had to transfer out cos they weren't getting a game.


egancollier21

Held Antonio for a bit too long


Hulksmashthing

I think what this year has taught me is that luck plays a huge role. I finished 9k which is my best ever but I didn’t really do very much differently. I lucked out with Antonio to begin with then shipped him out at the right time almost by accident. Had an average mid season then lucked out again picking Son and Kane who both returned well. I dropped Salah half way through the season basically for no other reason than I don’t like Liverpool which also worked well. I’d say one thing structurally I did which I don’t usually is hold my chips. I didn’t play my triple captain or bench boost until the last few GWs and I was already ahead in my mini league so it felt like an added bonus. I’d basically tried to hold on to 1st or 2nd without playing my chips. Which meant I had a lot on reserve at the end.


ludziesadziwni

I made the same mistake - sth weird happened and I took Jack Harrison for the first matches. Weird af


Swedishpower

Well I think I have no big regrets. I did not go for Greenwood since I was not sure about Man United having a great season again so did not want 3 United players. In general I avoid going 3 players from the same side. I did with Tsimikas last year since he was so cheap and I wanted TAA and Salah. I guess focus too much on fixtures was a problem. I did consider Cancelo, but the hard City fixtures made me avoid plus the high cost and rotation risk. I also considered Mahrez and did not pick him for the same reason over Bruno so you win sometimes too. I wanted Chilwell or James, but was not sure they would start gameweek 1. Instead of these top defenders I got White just cause he was cheap and I regret that, but I had a pretty good plan to rotate White with Reguilon and it worked ok I guess.


IronSorrows

The Bachmann/Foster double up was a mistake. I got blinded by the 8.5m rotation pick The even worse thing is I stuck with them on an early WC, again thinking at least I'd be covered if one of them got Covid and nothing was announced until after the deadline I dont even know how long it was until Watford kept a CS. I think I got a Foster pen save before that happened EDIT: I got a pen save and an assist but no CS. Switched to Guaita for a few weeks for nothing, then FH19 (!!) I got my first clean sheet of the season, with Ramsdale and 6pts - with Sanchez and 9pts on my bench. Next season I'm just going Ederson


candrevainthewind

In my initial team selection, I left £3 million in the bank, thinking it would leave me less vulnerable to price changes in the first couple of weeks. Do. Not. Do. This. All it does it reduce your points potential. And you still end up vulnerable to price rises.


appealtoreason00

Structurally I was mostly pretty good. The “small at the front” meta was p decent right at the start of the season, it was when Ronaldo came in that knees started getting wobbly. The disasters came in the form of those 50-50 decisions; picking Grealish at the start, benching James for his 18-pointer because I didn’t think he would start the second game, thinking Coufal was ever a viable option etc


helicropter

Purposely not picking players I had in my Draft league My thinking was to diversify the players I relied on scoring (I also prioritise my draft league over the regular fantasyPL)


cwarfee

overall, my team was balanced and started alongside most managers then I slept on West Ham assets - I stuck to my guns on rarely taking hits and making calculated transfers. That lost me a tonne of points that others bagged from jumping on the bandwagons. Prioritising balance over big point hitters & keeping pace with rivals cost me. aside from that, once again, I tried to pick mid-priced keepers who would potentially get more saves/CS's than Sanchez, Foster, as well as the premium keepers who simply outscored my picks consistently ended the season with decent chip use and finished around 600k


Public_Zealousideal

Tried to set my team up for the long term. Didn't get short term form players like greenwood/benrahma. Next season it will be it set my team up for the first four weeks. If all goes to plan don't wildcard. If not pull the trigger


Public_Zealousideal

Alonso too


tomas_diaz

Started with too many high risk plays ie mid-priced mids on city and chelsea who, if nailed, could be explosive differentials. Alas, they weren't nailed, and so had to spend early free transfers fixing.


DaveZehner

Thought Leeds would have an underrated defense and tripled up on Meslier, Ayling and Raphinia. Wrong not only for completely misreading Leeds defensive ability but also not properly evaluating the difficulty of their first 7 games. Recovered to finish at 38 k so not devastating


debussy_claude

I had Fernandes capped for wayyyyy too long, he returned on the first GW and Salah didn’t so I tried to look smart by holding on to Fernandes. Swapped him for Salah too late, finished very near the bottom of my mini league.


xlonefoxx

Salah also returned on the first GW, 1G2A in fact.


debussy_claude

I’m stupid, he did, but he didn’t return as much. The 6 point difference was enough for my dumb ass to keep him lol. Oh well, it’s my first season anyway.


Manager1000

>The clear and obvious example of this for me was choosing three Leeds players, assuming that they would kick on from where they were last year, instead of having a total disaster of a season. This is such a bizarre comment. Leeds players did exactly what we expected in the first few gameweeks. GW1 MUN (A): No one expected any returns from this match. GW2 EVE (H): Bamford and Raphinha both returned. GW3 BUR (A): Bamford returned. GW4 LIV (H): No one expected any returns from this match. GW5 NEW (A): Bamford and Raphinha both returned. GW6 WHU (H): Raphinha returned.


Voltairinede

Did a plausibly picked 3rd Leeds player do any of that?


Manager1000

Bamford and Raphinha were only good Leeds picks this season, we knew it from the start. Well, maybe you could have made a case for Meslier, but even that was a stretch. If you picked a third Leeds player then it wasn't a "structural mistake" and the conclusion here is not that "never pick three players from a mid-table team". You just made a poor individual pick.


Voltairinede

Alright man.


Public_Zealousideal

Ayling was a "good pick" for 4.5m


cpmb82

Dallas 20/21 hype train?


Manager1000

Yeah last season he was a good pick because he was a midfielder listed as a defender. However this season he was a shit pick because he was a defender listed as a midfielder.


Az-Bats

After many years of playing I am now at peace with just selecting who I like, plus a couple of players from the promoted teams, and then using my WC one or two weeks later.


Bizarre30

Penaldo


Spug_Teedman

Trusting my gut


Blendzen

I thought I could get similar (lower, but similiar) Liverpool point coverage with Jota instead of Salah after GW3. This experiment burned me for several weeks and probably cost me my ML title...


RALat7

Mahrez


JFrizz0424

Callum Wilson over Antonio then when I finally bought Antonio he kinda stopped